Syracuse, N.Y. -- They gathered after their win Sunday evening at LIU-Brooklyn immediately after Demetris Nichols' triumphant 3-pointer. At a table situated close to their locker room, they conferred with The Basketball Tournament officials who sought information that would deliver them to the Super 16.
Boeheim's Army players, one-by-one, supplied names, birthdates, phone numbers and email addresses to allow TBT to purchase plane tickets to Atlanta, site of this weekend's games. Boeheim's Army plays Armored Athlete at 1 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) at Georgia State.
Those brief Sunday interactions we welcomed distractions.
Because while TBT teams fund themselves for the opening rounds of these games, The Tournament takes over from here.